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Digested week: In defence of cat ladies (especially those with children) | Lucy Mangan
If you are having a bad day, you can ignore cats – the same can’t be said of your offspring. Plus: Oasis reunion? I can’t bear it
With apologies, of course, to Senator JD Vance – I have acquired two rescue kittens. Strictly speaking, I am not one of the “childless cat ladies” whom he so mocks and of whom he so disapproves, because I have a son. But it is my firm belief that childless cat ladyness is a state of mind, and in those terms I find myself fully qualified for the category.
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